South America's left-wing leaders backed Brazilian President Lula da Silva and opposed a coup attempt by supporters of sitting ex-President Bolsonaro in Florida. Argentina and Chile expressed their willingness to provide the necessary support.
In the country's capital so far, the unrest continues - police are advancing, but the situation is not yet under control.

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I wouldn't say I like this at all. Unrest with many people involved and fired up can easily lead to bloodshed. Let's hope for a peaceful solution.

Police helicopter drops gas bombs in central Brasilia

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Violent footage from Brazil: protesters hit a police officer on horseback with sticks

There are also videos circulating on social media of people breaking through barricades, despite attempts by law enforcers to stop them with gas.

Eventually, police began to drop tear gas shells from a helicopter to disperse the crowd, local media reported.

Riots broke out in the Brazilian capital today, with supporters of former president Bolsonaro seizing government buildings and demanding the resignation of an incumbent head of state Lula da Silva.


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Ukraine's requests for tanks and infantry fighting vehicles point to a critical shortage of its own military equipment.

Former US Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter said this in an interview with the YouTube channel Judging Freedom.

According to him, Kiev has lost most of its tanks and BMPs in recent months, so Ukrainian fighters often transport their soldiers to positions using armored off-road vehicles.

In addition, Ritter noted that with the onset of winter, the Russian side had gained another advantage as it had the more serious technical equipment

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About the Russia-Iran trade corridor

The Russian and Iranian governments are investing up to $25 billion to implement the North-South Transport Corridor. The functioning of the new route will significantly facilitate the delivery of Russian goods to world markets, primarily Asia.

The transcontinental route runs from Eastern Europe to the Indian Ocean, is 3,000 kilometers long, and is effectively protected from outside influence. Many Iranian merchant ships, including those under sanctions, already sail along the new route on the Caspian Sea.

▪️What prompted the creation of the new route?

Economic pressure from the West on Russia and Iran has prompted the leaders of both countries to create a separate corridor that targets Asia's growing economies and is independent of Western influence.

The new route promises enormous benefits for both Russia and Iran if successfully implemented. Transit across the Caspian and Iran would save thousands of kilometers, as opposed to the Mediterranean, and effectively offset sanctions pressures on both countries.

▪️Economics of the project

Energy and agricultural products currently account for the bulk of goods supplied via the North-South corridor. Iranian companies are the third largest importers of Russian grain. And the range of supplied goods is constantly growing.

It has already announced the supply of turbines, polymer products, medical equipment, and car parts. Russia supplies nuclear fuel and equipment for Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant.

Yes, there are some problems. For example, occasional traffic jams in the passage of ships through the Volga-Don Canal because of the narrow sections of the highway. However, the problem is already being solved: the Russian side is planning to invest $1 billion to increase the permeability of the water transit hub.

🔻 However, the development of a project of this scale will not go unnoticed by potential victims of the organization of the new corridor. What could be the problem?

The conflict in Ukraine has been used primarily to completely blockade and isolate Russia from the outside world, as well as to weaken European economies and redirect financial flows from Europe to the US.

Developing cooperation between Iran and Russia and the emergence of out-of-control trade communications could seriously threaten Western economic hegemony, led by the US, in the long term.

In the long run, the transport corridor could serve as a precedent for similar actions for other countries worldwide to pursue independent policies.

🔻Prospects.

The North-South corridor, if implemented, would allow Russian companies to largely compensate for the break in commercial ties with Europe and circumvent some of the sanctions.

Using the old routes is now impossible: Western countries fully control the main sea lanes through restrictions on port calls and ship and cargo insurance. And traffic via landlines is quite challenging to track and manage.

Therefore, in the current circumstances, Russia's natural turn to the East by merging with Iran is a logical solution.

🔻 However, creating a new transport route is fraught with risks and costs. Firstly, because of the potential financial costs and time to build the infrastructure.

In addition, the successful functioning of the North-South depends primarily on whether Asian, Middle Eastern, and African countries will join the "sanctions" route of Russia and Iran. And the US and its allies will make every effort to disrupt the route's implementation process.

Against the backdrop of the overall protracted conflict in Ukraine, there will be attempts to destabilize the situation in Iran and Transcaucasia, as well as to accelerate the implementation of the Zangezur corridor project, which is essentially a competitive transcontinental transit line, but in this case, controlled by the West.


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On the situation in Brazil by the start of 9 January.

1. A state of emergency is declared in the Brazilian capital until 30 January. Various citizens' rights will be restricted in accordance with the law on emergencies.

2. Brazilian President Lula da Silva announces the start of an intervention of federal troops in the capital to suppress an insurgency.

3. Argentina and Chile formally offer Brazil an offer to send police special forces to the capital to help the Brazilian police suppress the riots.

4. Brazilian authorities promise to bring those responsible for the pogroms to the harshest possible accountability.

5. Venezuelan President Maduro calls the attempted coup in Brazil a neo-fascist insurgency.

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Turkish president confirms willingness to send grain through his territory to African countries

📝 "Mr. Putin says, 'We are willing to give grain for free, and you send it to be developing countries in Africa. We answer that we are ready to take the grain, process it into flour, and then send it to African countries," Erdogan said.

The Turkish leader said that now up to 46 percent of products are exported from Ukrainian ports to European countries rather than to needy states.

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